1Mandrake (Mandragora)
Toxic, serves as a sedative, can relax muscles. It was a key ingredient in ancient anesthetics and Yunnan Baiyao. Different parts of the plant (flowers, seeds, leaves, roots) are used in folk medicine to treat various diseases. Chewing ten seeds can treat insomnia.
2Ghost Needle Grass (Hedyotis diffusa)
Can be eaten as a vegetable when young and is quite palatable. It is said to be effective in reducing transaminases and can disperse liver heat.
3Bitter Herb (Sonchus oleraceus)
In Yunnan, people refer to green vegetables as bitter herbs. The one in the picture is the true bitter herb, listed as a superior herb in ancient texts. It can strengthen the stomach and benefit the gallbladder, and has anti-tumor properties, making it suitable for modern people.
4Sunflower Greens (Helianthus annuus)
There are wild and cultivated varieties. Listed as a superior herb in the “Shennong’s Herbal Classic”, it is a vegetable beneficial to health, though most regions are unaware of its edibility. The wild variety shown above can benefit the five organs, with the roots used to promote kidney function and the leaves used with brown sugar for effective external treatment of sores and swellings.
5Nettle (Urtica dioica)
Some texts mention it as toxic, while others describe it as mildly toxic or even non-toxic. Traditionally, it was used medicinally, but now it is often consumed as a vegetable. Its stinging hairs can cause a prickling sensation upon contact. It can be made into soup or fried with eggs for a delicious dish. It treats pediatric coughs and toothaches due to wind-heat. One patient reported that its roots have remarkable effects on treating urticaria.
6Black Nightshade (Solanum nigrum)
Clears heat and treats tumors; it is also a commonly used wild vegetable. It has liver-protective, stomach-strengthening, and vision-improving properties.
7Yellow Robe (Cucurbita moschata)
The fruit is delicious, appetizing, and softens the liver, making it good for children.
8He Shou Wu (Polygonum multiflorum)
Used to tonify and nourish qi and blood, it has a neutral flavor and can be consumed regularly. Raw use detoxifies and promotes bowel movements without harming yin. The seedlings have calming and blood-nourishing effects.
9Black Robe (Solanum nigrum)
The fruit has similar effects to Yellow Robe. The leaves and tender tips, when boiled with brown sugar, are effective for treating liver-related diarrhea without side effects.
10Wild Mint (Mentha arvensis)
Its taste and effects are similar to cultivated varieties. It disperses wind-heat, eliminates foul qi, and detoxifies from fish and shrimp.
11Palm (Arecaceae)
The palm fibers, flowers, and roots are used medicinally. It has astringent properties and can stop bleeding, particularly effective for gynecological discharge.
12Gray Herb (Euphorbia hirta)
Generally not used in medicine, it was used in ancient formulas to make winter ash, now rarely used. It can clear lung and visceral congestion.
13Summer Kuding Tea (Ilex kudingcha)
Grows according to the seasons, harmonizes blood, draws yang into yin, and treats insomnia. It has a salty taste and can soften hard masses. Non-toxic, the tender shoots can be used as a vegetable, but in Yunnan, there are many vegetables, and few people eat it.
14Plantago (Plantago asiatica)
Used in pharmacies, the seeds and leaves have the same effects. It clears bladder heat, benefits kidney qi, and prevents stone formation. Additionally, it can draw lung heat out through urination, treating coughs. There are large-leaf and small-leaf varieties, with the small-leaf being superior.
15Iron Wormwood (Artemisia argyi)
There are many types of wormwood, some medicinal, some edible, and some used for both. Pharmacies often use Qinghao (青蒿) and Huanghao (黄蒿). Iron wormwood can clear empty heat and is similar to Qinghao, with a less bitter taste. During difficult times, people also consumed it to stave off hunger, and it has health benefits, but unfortunately, it has not been researched or developed.
16Honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica)
All parts of the honeysuckle can be used medicinally and is one of the precious Chinese medicinal materials designated by the State Council. Honeysuckle has functions of clearing heat, detoxifying, antibacterial, and anti-inflammatory. It is clinically used to treat respiratory infections, headaches, and sore throats. 1. Antibacterial, honeysuckle inhibits Staphylococcus, Shigella, and Streptococcus pneumoniae. 2. Honeysuckle can neutralize cholesterol, reducing intestinal absorption of cholesterol. 3. It is effective for influenza, pneumonia, coronary heart disease, and hyperlipidemia, enhancing immunity and delaying aging.
17Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale)
Taste and function: Sweet, slightly bitter, cold. Clears heat, detoxifies, reduces swelling, and disperses lumps. Main indications: Upper respiratory infections, conjunctivitis, epidemic mumps, mastitis, gastritis, dysentery, hepatitis, cholecystitis, acute appendicitis, urinary tract infections, pelvic inflammatory disease, and boils. Application references: 1. For epidemic mumps and mastitis: fresh dandelion crushed and applied to the affected area. 2. For chronic osteomyelitis: 15 grams of dandelion, 1 tablespoon of rice wine, boiled and mixed with rice, taken after meals. 3. For boils: dandelion, wild chrysanthemum, honeysuckle, and ground herb each 30 grams, boiled and taken.
18Duck Tongue Grass (Hedyotis diffusa)
Main indications: 1. Urinary obstruction. Use one or two ounces of duck tongue grass and one or two ounces of plantago, crush to extract juice, add a little honey, and take on an empty stomach. 2. Dysentery (red and white). Boil duck tongue grass and take daily. 3. Throat obstruction. Use duck tongue grass juice to gargle. 4. Hemorrhoids and swelling. Use duck tongue grass and Bichan flower together, crush and apply to the affected area. [Other names] Bamboo joint vegetable, duck quack grass, earring grass, blue flower vegetable, green butterfly, triangle vegetable, three pod vegetable, bamboo grass, blue flower water bamboo grass, light bamboo leaves. [Taste and properties] Sweet, bland, cold. Enters the lung, stomach, and small intestine meridians. [Dosage] 15-30g; fresh product 60-90g. External use as needed. (1) Used for external heat, or heat disease with persistent fever, or sore throat, as well as boils and ulcers. This product is sweet and cold, with heat-clearing and detoxifying effects. For external heat or persistent fever from heat disease, it can be used alone or combined with other heat-clearing herbs. For sore throat, it can be combined with dandelion, black plum, or earth cow knee, big green leaves, etc. For treating boils and ulcers, it can be combined with ground herb, dandelion, wild chrysanthemum, etc. (2) Used for urinary difficulties, edema, or dampness entering the bladder, urinary pain, etc. This product has good diuretic effects, and for wind-water edema or urinary difficulties, it can be combined with duckweed, coriander, etc.; for damp-heat entering the bladder and urinary pain, it can be combined with tail grass, flat-leafed herb, dandelion, etc. (3) Additionally, it can be used for snake bites, both internally and externally. (4) Duck tongue grass excels in clearing heat and promoting urination. Clinical experience shows that after taking this product, high fever gradually subsides, and urine output increases, but after stopping the medication, body temperature rises again. Therefore, if used alone, it seems that the detoxifying effect is not strong, and it is advisable to combine it with other heat-clearing and detoxifying herbs in clinical use. (5) Duck tongue grass and light bamboo leaves can both clear heat and promote urination, with similar effects, but duck tongue grass is stronger.
19Hanging Pot Grass (Euphorbia hirta)
Grows near water in fields. Taste: Sweet, bland, slightly sour, cool. Can clear heat, detoxify, reduce swelling, and promote urination. Main indications: For burns, boils, snake bites, and cancer: fresh grass 1-4 ounces, wash, crush, and take juice. Dried product 5-10 grams, boiled. For external use, fresh grass as needed, wash, crush, and apply to the affected area.
20Lantern Grass (Physalis alkekengi)
This one needs no introduction; it is often picked in childhood. Taste: Sour, neutral. Clears heat, detoxifies, promotes urination, stops bleeding, reduces swelling, and disperses lumps. Main indications: (1) Sore throat, lung abscess, mumps. (2) Urinary difficulties, blood in urine. For the above conditions, use 3-5 grams, boiled. (3) Gum swelling: fresh grass washed, crushed, soaked in vinegar, and gargled. (4) Pemphigus: fresh whole grass washed, juice extracted, and applied to the affected area. Note: This herb has a uterine contraction effect and should be avoided by pregnant women.
21Burweed (Xanthium strumarium)
[Properties] Warm, spicy, and bitter. [Functions and indications] Dispels wind and dampness, opens nasal passages. Used for wind-cold headaches, nasal congestion, wind rash itching, and dampness obstruction. Note: The whole burweed plant is also medicinal, treating acute and chronic gastroenteritis and bacterial dysentery.
22Malva (Malva sylvestris)
Also a common wild vegetable. Other names: Malva head, stair front chrysanthemum, chicken intestine, red stem vegetable, etc. It belongs to the Malvaceae family. The whole plant is medicinal. It is cool in nature and spicy in taste. It enters the lung and liver meridians. It cools blood, clears heat, promotes dampness, and detoxifies. It treats hemoptysis, epistaxis, blood dysentery, traumatic bleeding, malaria, jaundice, edema, turbid urination, sore throat, throat obstruction, hemorrhoids, boils, and snake bites. Dosage and administration: For internal use: decoction, 3-6 grams (fresh 1-2 ounces); or juice extraction. For external use: crush and apply, or wash with decoction. Selected formulas: 1. For persistent epistaxis: fresh leaves, one handful, washed with the second rinse of rice, crush to extract juice, mix with equal parts of winter honey and take warm. 2. For tuberculosis: 4 grams of root, stew with pig heart and lung. 3. For various malaria: Malva juice, taken early in the morning, or mixed with sand sugar. 4. For intestinal colic pain: chew Malva root leaves finely and swallow the juice. 5. For throat obstruction and tightness: crush Malva root or leaves, mix with a little rice vinegar, and drop into the nostrils or throat to clear phlegm. 6. For sore throat: 2-3 ounces of the whole plant, decoct and take frequently. 7. For breast abscess: crush Malva and apply to the affected area. 8. For external ear canal inflammation: crush Malva and drop juice into the ear.
23Shepherd’s Purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris)
It is one of the most common wild vegetables, which can be stir-fried, cold tossed, or used as dumpling filling.
Other names: Protecting life grass, fragrant field mustard, and grasping drum vegetable. It belongs to the Brassicaceae family. The whole plant is medicinal. It is neutral in nature and sweet in taste. It enters the Shaoyin, Taiyin, and Jueyin meridians. It harmonizes the spleen, promotes urination, stops bleeding, and brightens the eyes. It treats dysentery, edema, gonorrhea, chyluria, hemoptysis, blood in stool, menorrhagia, and eye redness and pain. Dosage and administration: For internal use: decoction, 3-5 grams (fresh 1-2 ounces); or in pills or powders. For external use: grind into powder for application, crush and apply, or juice extraction. Selected formulas: 1. For dysentery: burn the leaves to ashes and mix with honey for oral administration; or use 2 ounces of the whole plant, decoct and take. 2. For edema due to Yang syndrome: 1 ounce of shepherd’s purse root and 1 ounce of plantago, decoct and take. 3. For internal bleeding: 1 ounce of shepherd’s purse and 1 ounce of honey dates, decoct and take. 4. For menorrhagia and excessive menstruation: 1 ounce of shepherd’s purse and 1 ounce of dragon bud grass, decoct and take. 5. For pediatric measles with excessive heat: 1-2 ounces of fresh shepherd’s purse (8-12 grams dried), and 4-5 ounces of white grass root, decoct and take as tea for long-term consumption.
24Small Thistle (Cirsium setosum)
One of the wild vegetables. Other names: prickly vegetable, cat thistle, prickly radish, knife vegetable, wild red flower, etc.
It belongs to the Asteraceae family. The whole plant or roots are medicinal. It is cool in nature and sweet in taste. It enters the liver and spleen meridians. It cools blood, dispels stasis, and stops bleeding. It treats hemoptysis, epistaxis, blood in urine, blood dysuria, blood in stool, menorrhagia, acute infectious hepatitis, traumatic bleeding, boils, and abscesses. Dosage and administration: For internal use: decoction, 1.5-3 grams (fresh 1-2 ounces); juice extraction or powder. For external use: crush and apply or wash with decoction. Caution: Avoid use in cases of spleen and stomach deficiency without stasis. Selected formulas: 1. For bleeding on the tongue, combined with severe epistaxis: fresh leaves, one handful, crush, extract juice, and mix with half a cup of wine for oral administration. If fresh juice is unavailable, use dried powder mixed with cold water. 2. For treating itching: decoct small thistle and wash three times a day.
25Water Celery (Oenanthe javanica)
One of the wild vegetables. It belongs to the Apiaceae family. The whole plant is medicinal. It is cool in nature and spicy in taste. It calms the liver, releases the exterior, and promotes rashes. It treats early-stage measles, hypertension, and insomnia. If harvested by oneself, care must be taken as there is another toxic celery, which is robust and generally grows scattered, while water celery grows in patches near water or wetland.
26Cilantro (Coriandrum sativum)
Other names: broken copper coin, chicken vegetable, pot top coriander, etc., belonging to the Apiaceae family.
The whole plant is medicinal. It is cold in nature and bitter and spicy in taste. It clears heat, promotes urination, reduces swelling, and detoxifies. It treats jaundice, red and white dysentery, gonorrhea, urinary difficulties, eye cloudiness, throat swelling, boils, and abscesses. Dosage and administration: For internal use: decoction 3-5 grams, or juice extraction. For external use: crush and apply, or drop juice into the ear. Selected formulas: 1. For hepatitis with jaundice: fresh cilantro 5-8 grams (dried 3-5 grams), and 5 grams of Artemisia capillaris, decoct and take three times a day. 2. For acute jaundice hepatitis: fresh cilantro 1-2 ounces, one ounce of sugar, and half a cup of wine, decoct and take daily. 3. For Yang jaundice and pediatric wind-heat: crush cilantro, add a little salt, and take with boiling water. 4. For pediatric summer heat: fresh cilantro as needed, juice extraction, take three to five spoonfuls, five to six times a day. 5. For dysentery: cilantro, snake gourd, prickly pear root, and pomegranate peel, decoct and take. 6. For kidney stones: cilantro 1-2 ounces, decoct and take. 7. For urinary difficulties: fresh cilantro 1 ounce, crush and squeeze for juice, add one ounce of sugar for oral administration, or decoct with sugar. 8. For pediatric malnutrition: cilantro 5-10 grams, steamed with chicken liver or pig liver.
27Oxalis (Oxalis corniculata)
Other names: three-leaf acid grass, vinegar mother grass, and quail acid. It belongs to the Oxalidaceae family. The whole plant is medicinal. It is cold in nature and sour in taste. It enters the Yangming and Taiyang meridians. It clears heat, promotes dampness, cools blood, disperses stasis, reduces swelling, and detoxifies. It treats diarrhea, dysentery, jaundice, gonorrhea, red and white discharge, measles, hemoptysis, epistaxis, sore throat, boils, and burns. Dosage and administration: For internal use: decoction 2-4 grams (fresh 1-2 ounces), juice extraction or powder. For external use: wash with decoction, crush and apply, or juice extraction. Selected formulas: 1. For diarrhea: three grams of oxalis, add brown sugar and steam. 2. For dysentery: oxalis powder, five grams, taken with boiling water. 3. For damp-heat jaundice: oxalis 1-1.5 ounces, decoct twice, and take in portions. 4. For blood dysuria and heat dysuria: fresh grass juice, mixed with honey for oral administration. 5. For urinary difficulties: a handful of oxalis, crush to extract juice, mix with wine for oral administration. If not drinking wine, use three inches of licorice and one jujube-sized piece of ginger, crush together, and mix with five parts of well water for oral administration.
28Roll Ear (Dianthus chinensis)
Chinese medicinal name: Mother’s fingernail vegetable, other names: melon seed grass, high-foot mouse ear grass. It belongs to the Caryophyllaceae family. The whole plant is medicinal. It is sweet in taste. It clears urinary heat symptoms. Dosage and administration: For internal use: decoction 5-6 grams. For external use: crush and apply. Selected formulas: 1. For initial breast abscess in women: fresh grass crushed and mixed with wine dregs to make a cake, heated and applied to the wrist pulse point, left breast on the right wrist, right breast on the left wrist. 2. For pediatric wind-cold cough, fever, nasal congestion, etc.: roll ear, coriander, 5-6 grams, and two or three grams of Hu Tui Zi leaves, decoct, and add brown sugar, taken before breakfast and dinner. 3. For boils: fresh roll ear grass mixed with tung oil, crushed, and applied to the affected area.
29Varnish Grass (Rheum palmatum)
Other names: pearl grass, earth pine. It belongs to the Caryophyllaceae family. The whole plant is medicinal. It is cool in nature and bitter and spicy in taste. It treats varnish sores, bald sores, boils, lymphadenitis, dental caries, pediatric milk accumulation, and internal injuries from falls. Dosage and administration: For internal use: decoction 3-5 grams, or powder. For external use: crush and apply or juice extraction. Selected formulas: 1. For varnish sores: fresh grass crushed, mixed with loofah leaf juice, and applied with vegetable oil. 2. For dental caries: crush and pack into the gaps between teeth. 3. For internal injuries from falls: varnish grass 5 grams, decoct and take. 4. For snake bites: crush varnish grass and mix with realgar for application. 5. For lymphadenitis: varnish grass 5-10 grams, decoct and take, or apply fresh grass crushed.
30Qingquan Grass (Hedyotis diffusa)
Chinese medicinal name: Green orchid flower, other names: tiger grass, stone slime grass, pus medicine. It belongs to the Scrophulariaceae family. It is cool in nature, slightly sweet, and non-toxic. The whole plant is medicinal. It reduces inflammation and detoxifies. It treats boils, abscesses, and burns. Selected formulas: 1. For boils and abscesses: dried Qingquan grass, ground into fine powder, mixed with cold water for application, changed once a day. 2. For abscesses: dried Qingquan grass and hibiscus leaves crushed together, mixed with rice washing water for oral administration. 3. For burns: fresh grass crushed to extract juice, applied with clean cotton, frequently applied for effect.
31Persian Motherwort (Leonurus japonicus)
Chinese medicinal name: Kidney grass, other names: lantern grass, Persian water bitter herb. It belongs to the Scrophulariaceae family. It is neutral in nature, spicy, bitter, and salty. The whole plant is medicinal. It detoxifies heat, treats kidney deficiency, and alleviates rheumatism. Selected formulas: 1. For kidney deficiency: lantern grass 1 ounce, stewed with meat. 2. For scabies: wash with lantern grass decoction. 3. For rheumatic pain: lantern grass 1 ounce, boiled with wine for warm consumption. 4. For chronic malaria: lantern grass 1 ounce, one gram of stinkweed, decoct and take. 5. For pediatric scrotal swelling: lantern grass 3 ounces, decoct and wash the affected area.
32Ze Qi (Euphorbia hirta)
Properties: Slightly cold, bitter; toxic. Functions and indications: Promotes urination and reduces swelling, resolves phlegm and disperses lumps, kills insects and relieves itching. Used for ascites, edema, tuberculosis, cervical lymphadenitis, excessive phlegm, cough, and skin diseases. Dosage: 5-10 grams for decoction. External use as needed. Caution for those with spleen and stomach deficiency.
33Dog Tail Grass (Cynodon dactylon)
Other names: green dog tail grass, grain weed, weed, dog tail grass, bright grass, and Arhat grass. Main indications: Clears heat, removes dampness, reduces swelling. Treats boils, sores, red eyes. Dosage: For internal use: decoction 2-4 grams (fresh 1-2 ounces). For external use: wash with decoction or crush and apply (sweet taste). Properties and indications: Mild, neutral. Functions: Expels wind and brightens the eyes, clears heat and promotes urination. Used for wind-heat colds, conjunctivitis, red eyes, jaundice, and urinary difficulties; externally treats cervical lymphadenitis.
34One String Red (Lantana camara)
The medicinal part is the whole plant, which can be harvested throughout its growth period, used fresh or dried for later use. Properties and effects: Sweet, neutral. Clears heat, cools blood, and reduces swelling. Main indications: Selected formulas for treating initial boils: fresh one string red as needed, crushed and applied externally.
35Duck Tongue Grass (Hedyotis diffusa)
Duck tongue grass has dietary effects: it is bitter and cool; it has heat-clearing and detoxifying effects; it treats dysentery, enteritis, acute tonsillitis, erysipelas, and boils. Preparation guidance: 1. For hemoptysis: 1-2 ounces of duck tongue grass, stewed with lean pork. 2. For red and white dysentery: appropriate amount of duck tongue grass, dried. Brew as tea daily for three to four days. 3. For boils: crush duck tongue grass and mix with tung oil for application. 4. For tooth extraction: two grams of water jade, two grams of jade flower root, one gram of realgar, and one fish (about one pound). Grind the first three herbs into fine powder, remove fish intestines, pack the medicine, and hang in a cool, ventilated place for about 50 days, when frost-like substances will appear on the fish scales, which is the medicinal powder used. When using, slightly peel the gums and apply this medicine (about the amount on one scale), and the tooth can be extracted shortly after. This medicine should not be swallowed to avoid poisoning. 5. For snake and insect bites: fresh duck tongue grass, crush and apply. Caution: Avoid use in cases of deficiency-cold diarrhea.
36Phoenix Eye Orchid (Euryale fox-tail)
Other names: water hyacinth, water floating lotus.
Used as a whole plant. Collected in spring and summer, washed, used fresh or dried. Properties: Bland, cool. Functions and indications: Clears heat and relieves summer heat, promotes urination and reduces swelling. Used for heat stroke, thirst, kidney inflammation, and urinary difficulties. Dosage: 0.5-1 ounce.
37Orchid Ginseng (Dendrobium nobile)
Tonifies deficiency, releases the exterior. Treats deficiency injuries, hemoptysis, epistaxis, spontaneous sweating, night sweats, women’s leukorrhea, wind-cold cough, stomach pain, diarrhea, and knife wounds.
38Chai Hu (Bupleurum chinense)
Properties: Slightly cold, bitter, spicy, enters the liver, lung, and spleen meridians.
Functions: Releases the exterior and drains heat, soothes the liver and relieves depression, lifts yang qi.
Main indications: Fever from colds, alternating chills and fever, malaria, liver depression and qi stagnation, chest and rib distension, prolapse of the rectum, uterine prolapse, and irregular menstruation.
Dosage: 3-10 grams for decoction. For releasing the exterior and reducing fever, a slightly higher dosage is recommended, preferably using the raw herb. For soothing the liver and relieving depression, it is advisable to use vinegar-fried, while for lifting yang, it can be used raw or vinegar-fried, with a slightly lower dosage.
39Mulberry White Skin (Morus alba)
Properties: Sweet and cold, enters the lung meridian. Functions: Drains lung heat and relieves cough, promotes urination and reduces swelling. Used for lung heat cough, facial swelling, and urinary difficulties.
40Yuzhu (Polygonatum odoratum)
Nourishes yin, moistens dryness, relieves restlessness, and quenches thirst. Treats heat disease with yin injury, cough with thirst, deficiency fever, easy hunger, and frequent urination.
41Mai Dong (Ophiopogon japonicus)
Properties: Sweet, slightly bitter, slightly cold. Enters the heart, lung, and stomach meridians. Functions: Nourishes yin and generates fluids, moistens the lungs and clears the heart. Used for dry cough, yin deficiency, sore throat, thirst, internal heat, and insomnia.
42Red Smartweed (Persicaria maculosa)
43Day Lily (Hemerocallis fulva)
Day lily is a perennial herbaceous plant with rich flower buds, nutritious, containing abundant pollen, sugar, protein, vitamin C, calcium, fat, carotene, and amino acids necessary for the human body. Its carotene content is even several times higher than that of tomatoes. Day lily is sweet and cool in nature, with effects of stopping bleeding, reducing inflammation, clearing heat, promoting dampness, aiding digestion, brightening the eyes, and calming the spirit. It is effective for hemoptysis, blood in stool, urinary difficulties, insomnia, and insufficient milk production, and can be used as a tonic after illness or childbirth. Properties: Sweet, neutral. Functions: Nourishes blood, soothes the liver, promotes urination, and reduces swelling. Treats dizziness, tinnitus, palpitations, back pain, hemoptysis, epistaxis, blood in the large intestine, edema, gonorrhea, and sore throat. Treats breast abscesses and boils: crush day lily roots for application. Treats pediatric malnutrition: 15 grams of day lily leaves, decoct and take. Modern scholars have further discovered the medicinal value of day lily, such as Japanese scholars calling it “brain-healthy vegetable”; the Chinese Journal of Nutrition has evaluated day lily as having a significant effect in lowering animal serum cholesterol. It is known that elevated cholesterol is a major factor leading to diseases in middle-aged and elderly people and body decline. There are not many delicious and nutritious vegetables that can combat aging, and day lily happens to have these characteristics.
Regular consumption of day lily can also moisturize the skin, enhance its elasticity and resilience, making the skin tender, plump, smooth, and soft, reducing wrinkles and fading spots, adding beauty. Day lily also has antibacterial and immune functions, with mild detoxifying effects, and plays a certain role in preventing infections.
44Gardenia (Gardenia jasminoides)
Enters the heart, liver, lung, stomach, and Sanjiao meridians. Classification: Rubiaceae. Function classification: Heat-clearing and fire-draining herb. Functions: Drains fire and relieves irritability; clears heat and promotes dampness; cools blood and detoxifies; dried gardenia: cools blood and stops bleeding. Main indications: Heat disease with irritability; liver fire causing red eyes; headaches; damp-heat jaundice; urinary issues; blood dysentery; mouth and tongue sores; abscesses and swellings; sprains and swelling. Taste: Bitter, cold, non-toxic. Dosage: For internal use: decoction 5-10 grams; or in pills or powders. For external use: appropriate amount, ground into powder or mixed for application.
45Patchouli (Pogostemon cablin)
Properties: Spicy; slightly warm. Enters the lung, spleen, and stomach meridians. Functions: Expels summer heat and releases the exterior; transforms dampness and harmonizes the stomach. Main indications: Summer colds; cold and hot headaches; chest and abdominal fullness; vomiting and diarrhea; pregnancy-related vomiting; nasal congestion; hand and foot ringworm.
46Stream Yellow Grass (Lysimachia christinae)
Bitter and cold. Clears heat, promotes dampness, reduces jaundice, and dispels dampness. It is a very good herb for treating hepatitis. Properties: Sweet and bitter, cool. Dosage: For internal use: decoction 25-50 grams (fresh 100-150 grams). Functions and indications: Clears heat and promotes dampness, cools blood and disperses stasis. Treats acute hepatitis, acute cholecystitis, dysentery, enteritis, urinary retention, and bruises. Jaundice hepatitis: symptoms include yellowing of the skin and sclera, chills and fever, fatigue, poor appetite, liver area pain, liver and spleen enlargement, yellow urine, red tongue with thin yellow coating, and wiry slippery pulse. Acute cholecystitis: symptoms include chills and fever, pain in the upper right abdomen radiating to the right shoulder and back, dry mouth and bitterness, nausea and vomiting, or accompanied by constipation or diarrhea, jaundice, etc.
Source: Frontiers in Botany